Quotes About Challenge

Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair.

The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there.

It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

I love travel because you may be uncomfortable, hungry, hot and sweaty, cold and shivering…but damn it, you will never be bored.

It was a marriage of convenience, as my father had a blister on his big toe and couldn't travel far to find a girl.

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.

You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.

There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.

The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

You know that it never has been easy Whether you do or do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities Or stick to some straighter line.